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  2. Domesday Book - Wikipedia

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    Domesday Book encompasses two independent works (originally in two physical volumes): "Little Domesday" (covering Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex), and "Great Domesday" (covering much of the remainder of England – except for lands in the north that later became Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, and the County Palatine of Durham – and parts of Wales bordering and included within English ...

  3. List of hundreds of England - Wikipedia

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    The hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the ten hundreds of the present day. Not included in the hundreds of Herefordshire at the time of Domesday, the sparsely populated Welch area of Archenfield included Ashe Ingen, Baysham ...

  4. Companions of William the Conqueror - Wikipedia

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    Four hundred seventy-five names are listed, based mainly on names contained in the Domesday Book. The names are therefore merely those of Normans holding land in England in 1086, many of whom may have fought at Hastings. Roll of Falaise, Normandy, 1931.

  5. Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief - Wikipedia

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    The Domesday Book of 1086 lists in the following order the tenants-in-chief in Devonshire of King William the Conqueror: Osbern FitzOsbern (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter; Geoffrey de Montbray (died 1093), Bishop of Coutances; Glastonbury Church, Somerset; Tavistock Church, Devon; Buckfast Church, Devon; Horton Church, Dorset; Cranborne Church ...

  6. List of towns and cities in England by historical population

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    This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population at various points during history. Until the first modern census was conducted in 1801 there was no centrally conducted method of determining the populations of England's settlements at any one time, and so data has to be used from a number of other historical surveys.

  7. Hundreds of Cheshire - Wikipedia

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    This area is included as "Inter Ripam et Mersam" in the Domesday Book. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, more recent sources confirm that the actual boundary at that time was the River Mersey . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The ancient parish of Whitchurch in Hodnet Hundred appears in both Cheshire and Shropshire rolls of the Domesday Survey.

  8. Derbyshire Domesday Book tenants-in-chief - Wikipedia

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    The Domesday Book of 1086 AD lists (in the following order) King William the Conqueror's tenants-in-chief in Derbyscire , following the Norman Conquest of England: [1] [2] King William (c. 1028 - 1087), the first Norman King of England (after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD) and he was Duke of Normandy from 1035.

  9. House of Montagu - Wikipedia

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    The House of Montagu (/ ˈ m ɒ n t ə ɡ juː /, MON-tə-ghew), also known throughout history as Montagud, Montaigu, Montague, Montacute (Latin: de Monte Acuto, lit. 'from the sharp mountain'; French: Mont Aigu), is an English noble family founded in Somerset after the Norman Conquest of 1066 by the Norman warrior Drogo de Montagud [1] (so named in the Domesday Book).